throwaway2214

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by throwaway2214 3y ago
this is the same in any field, 99% of human content is terrible, including this comment (and your comment) the thing is, we need the other 1%, but when in absolute numbers it is small, you can still kind of find it, but imagine you have to
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by throwaway2214 3y ago
having read his manifesto multiple times, I think its better to read Ellul's books (particularly Propaganda and Technological Society)
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by throwaway2214 3y ago
why do you think if we can not understand the dependency chain, the regulators and the auditors can?
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by throwaway2214 3y ago
none of this makes any sense in 2 years i will just run local llm and not touch google/microsoft models with a ten foot pole the internet will be full of generated garbage and rendered useless
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by throwaway2214 3y ago
haha i have most of the negative symptoms and never had any drugs what so ever > Continuous anxiety about literally nothing. I felt like a student who didn’t do their homework, and was dreading their teacher calling on them - for 24 hour
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by throwaway2214 3y ago
if their parents give them heroin, will we turn blind eye?
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by throwaway2214 3y ago
'Those who can, do; those who can't, teach.'
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by throwaway2214 4y ago
you assume they just reproduces the training set, but when they get big enough they start to "understand" things, when the input is really big it actually can never "guess" the next word in the batch, so it has to "
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by throwaway2214 4y ago
the jupyter desktop plus whisper and gpt might be the new way we use computers, like iron man's jarvis :)
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by throwaway2214 4y ago
"Never attribute to malice that which is adequately explained by stupidity." https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hanlon%27s_razor
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by throwaway2214 4y ago
shutterstock just introduced shutterstock AI partnering with dall-e they will get it back quite quickly
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by throwaway2214 4y ago
You probably are considered abusive to someone, you might not even know it.
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by throwaway2214 4y ago
i used to care great deal about this, but recently i gave up why do you even care? most of your files are either on apple's computers or google's computers
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by throwaway2214 4y ago
what do you mean? you can open an issue on github and there are build instructions in the readme
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by throwaway2214 4y ago
you mean now? ads and cookie warnings and spam
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by throwaway2214 4y ago
maybe not search engines, but it has totally replaced stackoverflow and google for searching for docs or even wikipedia in some sense (e.g. make alpha blend between two argb uint32 pixels) google has been going progressively worse to find w
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by throwaway2214 4y ago
this line of thinking is quite difficult to get by in the modern world, same applies to vaccines, or to your car, or to the food you eat the browser you use, etc, in fact if you randomly look in your room right now it is very likely that yo
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by throwaway2214 4y ago
like brexit? you will be surprised what would happen if USA switches to direct democracy
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by throwaway2214 4y ago
the dutch are closing 3000 farms because of too much nitrogen nothing is as easy as it seems
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by throwaway2214 4y ago
wow this poll shows how many standard deviations the hackernews audience is away from the norm
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by throwaway2214 4y ago
isnt it time to abandon the idea and accept that the internet is more bots than humans and more malicious and hostile actors rather than well meaning ones? twitter/fb/google with their vast ml knowhow still cant figure out how to
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by throwaway2214 4y ago
or fix the cities? wfh, better public transport, incentivize local business, e-bikes, etc individual cars are not going to solve anything, ev or ic or whatever
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by throwaway2214 4y ago
most of people on hackernews experience very different internet than the rest of the world, due to adblocks, pi holes, netflix, paid youtube, etc... most web pages are up to 60% ads, search results are almost all ads, tv is mostly ads googl
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by throwaway2214 4y ago
its school vacation now, and its like 40 degrees outside watching youtube and crunchyroll for 4 hours is not the worst i remember at this age when i was not ouside i could watch cow and chicken marathon for like 8 hours straight :)
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by throwaway2214 4y ago
i have a daughter(11) * i check her feed (together with her) on youtube/instagram once a week for toxic videos, and teach her how to manipulate her feed; either she modifies the feed or the feed modifies her * i encourage her to pay fo
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by throwaway2214 4y ago
haha, i cant count the times i fucked up and i just copied my files out, rm -rf repo; git clone; copy in :)
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by throwaway2214 4y ago
today i bought 9$ wired 3.5mm jack headphones (noname) better than 90$ sony and 300$ bose everything is a scam
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by throwaway2214 4y ago
It saddens me what will be lost if youtube continues on this route, 99% of the content is garbage, and the 1% good content is hardly monetizable, and there is 0.001% that content creators monetize with some form of sponsorship, but not so m
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by throwaway2214 4y ago
> "your salary will now be half and we're maxing our your workload" should be fine if they pay their student loans no? isnt that the main reason the salaries are so high? cost of living + debt
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by throwaway2214 4y ago
minified js is not greatly smaller than gzipped js, I think the whole minification thing is a swing and a miss and now we have to deal with source maps and shit, and build pipelines and etc $ ls -la -rw-r--r-- 1 jack 197609 330905

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